The European Commission has delayed a vital vote on protecting forests from illegal logging till September. We want to make sure the commissioners don't forget about it during their summer holiday. We need you to help us make an extra impression before the September vote.

We all love the forests, and we would like to showcase all that love to the EU (and we know for a fact that the EU doesn’t have anything against some loving). The forests already have made an effort themselves!And this is the mission they have for you:

Take pictures and/or videos of yourself and your friends spreading the love in a forest.Submit your pictures in the flickr group or post your video as an answer to ours. They will use these photos to make a collaborative video that they’ll show the European Commission in September.

And there's also a great example to what exactly Greenpeace mean by spreading the love in a forest (btw - if you want to see more of their excellent videos, check out eco-tube):

ebooks vs. paper books:

Eco-Libris: Plant a tree for every book you read!

Founded in 2007, Eco-Libris is a green company working to green up the book industry in the digital age by promoting the adoption of green practices in the book industry, balancing out books by planting trees, and helping to make e-reading greener.

To achieve these goals Eco-Libris is working with book readers, publishers, authors, bookstores and others in the book industry worldwide. So far Eco-Libris balanced out over 179,500 books, which results in more than 200,000 new trees planted with its planting partners in developing countries.